Welcome to Games That Weren't 64!

We cover Cancelled & Unreleased Video games for the Commodore 64 computer. A non-profit large archive dedicated to preserving lost games that were never released to the public, as well as prototypes and the odd preservation of released titles. Our aim to share history and stories from the developers, assets and more before it is too late. GTW has been preserving lost video game history since 1999, and long before that offline.

Please Browse our archive and discover the many entries that we host and have saved over the years.

Latest News and Posts

Armalyte and Hawkeye early protos

Just a very quick post to share a few pre-release versions of Hawkeye and Armalyte. Nothing to get too excited about, and the Hawkeye version has already been put out last year – just slightly under the radar. The purpose of this post is merely to highlight them and make them available. Here they are to download.

The Hawkeye bits seem to be review copies, and also a slightly pre-release version which has a distinct difference of a grey main character on the title screen – but Jeroen Tel tunes with slightly differing instrument sounds. The in-game tune in particular sounds quite different on one of the disks. Unfortunately one demo does not load at all, and the final verison seems to be what was sent out to magazines (with no real differences).

Armalyte is additionally interesting, as one version has no title screen at all – but some cool circle effects and option to select players. There may be some slightly different sprites used, but that is all.

Another disk has the option to select from 4 levels – only one seems to load in correctly though, and has some odd sound effects in places.

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New Games That Weren’t 64 site launch!

After many years of saying we were going to update GTW64, it has finally been done! We are very proud to present the newly updated GTW64 site, now becoming part of the main Games That Weren’t website and taking advantages of its features – including the ability to rate entries, comment, view latest update feeds and more. Additionally there have been improvements to searching and discovery with various canned searches set up throughout on key attributes like company and year.

No doubt there will be a few niggles here and there, but we hope to have caught most of the problems. If you do spot anything badly broken, please let us know and we’ll aim to fix as soon as possible. It is hoped that this upgrade will provide a mechanism to carry out quicker updates and on the fly updates as well (i.e. publish updated notes as soon as we get them). We’ll see – but any time saved will with any luck give us more time to locate more unreleased C64 software.

We are additionally retiring the gtw64.co.uk domain, and it will merely act as a redirect to the new address from now on. If anything has linked to any old GTW64 pages/urls, then we are hoping that most should be redirecting to the new addresses here. If you are linking to the old address, please could you update your bookmarks and links accordingly!

Not much else left to say apart from that we hope you enjoy the new site!

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Hunt for a lost Dracula loading screen

Thanks to Raffox for flagging this one up from the Gamebase 64 archives, but although we mainly deal with trying to find unreleased games or vastly different versions of a released game, we also like to examine and take a look at various assets which were not used.

It seems that CRL’s Dracula had a slightly earlier edition that featured a different loading screen which you can see below.

oldtitle

Sadly so far nothing has been found of this loading screen. Are there more maybe as well in an earlier edition? Maybe Jared Derrett can help us or shed some light?

If you have any loading screens not on the review page, please let us know!

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Angel of Hell 2 game recovered

NOTE: (Frank – 03/09/21) I’ve updated this old 2012 post, as the link was broke.

Another quick update with the recovery of a great icon driven adventure game called Angel Of Death 2. This is a very advanced preview with some neat intros and graphics throughout. No English translation just yet!

Angel Of Hell 2

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GTW64 and C64.com update

Over the past few months, GTW64 has been working with C64.com to preserve a series of games after working on the disk collection of Darren Melbourne. 25 or so disks were painstakingly preserved by C64.com, and GTW64 trawled through these and found many a lost game. We present a good selection of these, but more will follow in the future with more disks being examined and preserved by both of us.

The collaborated update includes:

  • Nuker preview found and released
  • Runestone preview found and released
  • Duel full game found and released
  • Unnamed CRL game preview found and released
  • Leopard Lord full game found

Then part of GTW64’s usual update includes:

  • Necronom graphical assets found
  • Shao Lin’s Road V1 assets found
  • Enduro Racer V1/V2 preview found
  • Early version of Microprose Soccer released
  • More details on Razzmatazz added
  • 42 other new entries added
  • 17 existing entries updated

Nuker image

Enjoy, and hope you all have a good holidays and a happy new year! We’ll be back in 2012 with more joint findings :)

http://www.gtw64.co.uk and http://www.c64.com

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GTW64 updated

A new update from Games That Weren’t, including:

20 new entries added

Civilization, Dive Bomber, Dinnamic Donkey Duo, Erik the Destroyer, Elusive, Giana Strikes Back, Game#3, Gyrofalcon, Imperial Bodyguard, Pimple Panic, Robin Hood, Shian: “Tiger Style”, Shian: “Wu Dang”, Samba 2, SAW Wars, Unnamed game 1, Unnamed Football game, Unnamed game 2, Unnamed game 3, Zach Townsend Puzzler

8 game entries updated

Car Wars, Messiah 3, Quonodam, Shockwave, Trojahn, Thundercats V1, The Legend of Kyril

http://www.gtw64.co.uk

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Seal Cull beta testing

Recently in 2011 saw the re-launch of the Bad Taste label by Keith Wood in preparation for a upcoming article in Retro Gamer magazine on Dis Baby.

Coming from events of producing the article and interest from the Bad Taste range of games, Keith has decided that the first game from the Bad Taste label will be a proper version of Seal Cull (Released on the PC platform). Seal Cull was a game that never was for the C64 back in the 80s. It was believed that it was a Bad Taste game, but Keith confirmed that this wasnt the case. However, Keith loved the idea so much that he has decided to create the game. Keith has been busily working away with his family members to get the game complete and ready hopefully by November.

Keith is now wanting to open the game up for Beta testing, and needs help. For more details on getting involved, please go to:

http://www.badtastesoftware.co.uk/beta.html

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